http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/18/china-reveals-its-cyber-war-secrets.html
By Shane Harris
The Daily Beast
March 18, 2015
A high-level Chinese military organization has for the first time formally
acknowledged that the country’s military and its intelligence community
have specialized units for waging war on computer networks.
China’s hacking exploits, particularly those aimed at stealing trade
secrets from U.S. companies, have been well known for years, and a source
of constant tension between Washington and Beijing. But Chinese officials
have routinely dismissed allegations that they spy on American
corporations or have the ability to damage critical infrastructure, such
as electrical power grids and gas pipelines, via cyber attacks.
Now it appears that China has dropped the charade. “This is the first time
we’ve seen an explicit acknowledgement of the existence of China’s
secretive cyber-warfare forces from the Chinese side,” says Joe
McReynolds, who researches the country’s network warfare strategy,
doctrine, and capabilities at the Center for Intelligence Research and
Analysis.
McReynolds told The Daily Beast the acknowledgement of China’s cyber
operations is contained in the latest edition of an influential
publication, The Science of Military Strategy, which is put out by the top
research institute of the People’s Liberation Army and is closely read by
Western analysts and the U.S. intelligence community. The document is
produced “once in a generation,” McReynolds said, and is widely seen as
one of the best windows into Chinese strategy. The Pentagon cited the
previous edition (PDF), published in 1999, for its authoritative
description of China’s “comprehensive view of warfare,” which includes
operations in cyberspace.
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